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Beyond East and West: A Foreword by John Wu, Jr.
A Note of Introduction by F. J. Sheed
Illustrations
Part 1.
Prologue
1. The Gift of Life
2. My Father
3. My Little Mother
4. My Big Mother
5. The Philosophy of Nursery
6. Adam and Eve
7. John is My Name
8. The Hound of Heaven
9. The Story of a Friendship
10. "Law Is My Idol"
11. De Profundis
Part 2.
12. The Religions of China
13. The Lotus and the Mud
14. Mental Roamings
15. The Return of the Prodigal
16. The Kindergarten of My Catholic Life
17. Escape from a Lion's Den
18. The Poetry of Life
19. A Chinese Tunic for Christ
20. The Diplomacy of Love
21. My Last Trip to China
Epilogue
Explanations and Acknowledgments
European Reminiscences (an Appendix to Beyond East and West)
About the author
John C. H. Wu (1899-1986) was a diplomat, scholar, and authority on international law. He wrote works in Chinese, English, French, and German on topics as diverse as Chinese literature (including a translation of the
Tao Teh Ching) and law. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he was the principal author of the constitution of the Republic of China. He maintained a correspondence with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and later produced scholarly work examining Holmes's legal thought.
Summary
When John C. H. Wu's spiritual autobiography Beyond East and West was published in 1951, it became an instant Catholic bestseller. This new edition, including a foreward written by Wu's son John Wu, Jr., makes this profoundly beautiful book by one of the most influential Chinese lay Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century available for a new generation of readers.
